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A HIKER was left drenched in blood after an eight-foot python attacked him as he tried to film the vicious critter. Joey Zayne was out walking in Cairns, Australia, when he spotted the slithery rep… ...

A horrified mother discovered her young son covered in blood in his bed after a giant python slithered in and attacked him.

She extracted plasma from the blood of pythons that had just been fed, and placed it on rat heart cells. They grew in size. Could a protein be responsible?

Spruce Grove RCMP are on the lookout for a blood python that escaped from a home in the area of Aspenglen.